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  • Filming "I Love Lucy" in 1952.
    Off-Ramp Loves Lucy -- 8-6-2011
    We celebrate TV pioneer Lucille Ball on her Centennial ... Kevin's grandma remembers WW2 and the USS Indianapolis ... The LA Jewish Symphony plays Bible stories at the Ford Ampitheatre ... a trip down Wilshire in 1970s photos ...
  • Author Lisa See (far right) with (L-R) Producer Wendi Murdoch, actress Li Bingbing, director Wayne Wang, and producer Florence Sloan, at a screening of Fox Searchlights' "Snowflower and the Secret Fan" on July 11, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
    Lisa See Dreams of Joy on Off-Ramp 7-30-11
    Lisa See on "Dreams of Joy," the sequel to "Shanghai Girls ... "Leftover Cuties" live on KPCC's Jam and Banter ... Dinner Party Download makes you 15% smarter, 12% more attractive ... RIP Magu (Gilbert Luhan, founder of Los Four) ...
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  • Cheech Marin (left) with Off-Ramp host John Rabe, talking about Chicano art at Marin's Malibu Cheech house.
    Looking Back on Off-Ramp for September 1, 2012
    This week on Off-Ramp, we revisit some of our favorite moments from this year: A homeless advocate finds a way to give back to the very community he took from. What do you do after you've been robbed? (Become a superhero.) And John Rabe calls Betty White a grandma.
  • July 24, 1979: "One man was killed this morning when he lost control of his car on the Pasadena Freeway, crashed into guard rail and landed in the Arroyo Seco."
    From Speedway to Parkway? Off-Ramp for August 25, 2012
    This week on Off-Ramp, named best public affairs program by the LA Press Club: Will lowering the speed limit on the 110 between downtown and Pasadena automatically make it safer? What happens when 71 artists fill a sketchbook? (They help build 4 libraries.) And one of the greatest music festivals you've never heard of, Wattstax, which happened 40 years ago.
  • Jeanne Cooper's first movie.
    Jeanne Cooper on 70 years in showbiz - Off-Ramp for August 18, 2012
    Jeanne Cooper, beloved/hated 83-year old matriarch of "The Young and the Restless," reveals the secrets of her success and long life ... including which TV crime show star she slept with. (Her first movie was "The Redhead from Wyoming.") Plus, Steve Julian's theory of why live theatre is struggling (it has to do with news), and an NPR executive reveals his surprising backstory (surprising for an NPR type).
  • Portrait of George Edward Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles from 1921-1929. Under Cryer, a former police officer, the present city hall and library, the Coliseum and Olympic Auditorium were erected. The population had reached one million, and passenger service and airmail routes opened between Los Angeles and New York.
    Ramadan on Off-Ramp for August 11, 2012
    Marking Ramadan, a time to fast, with a canned food drive. EatLA on pop-ups gone permanent. Dylan Brody learns something Down South. And: who's the guy in the chair?
  • Guernica
    Mars! Art! Replicants! Sports! - Off-Ramp for August 4, 2012
    Mars! Art! Replicants! Sports!
  • A 1966 Ian Whitcomb music video, interpreted by John Rabe
    No BS with a Ukulele! Off-Ramp for July 28, 2012
    Ian Whitcomb's ukulele heroes, downhill skateboarding, Kwayzar the 84yo rapper, Tuesday night in Anaheim, and the El Segundo Blue.
  • David Misch, when he was suffering from Cat on the Back Disease. He's better now.
    Why is he wearing a cat? Because it's funny. Off-Ramp for July 21, 2012
    David Misch on Funny, rethinking pole dancing, Disney and the Reagan Library, the roots of homelessness, and Brian May on 3-D photography.
  • An undated contact sheet from the LA Public Library shows three different photos of an oil field fire in Southern California.
    Whitey Bulger's Barber - Off-Ramp for July 14, 2012
    Whitey Bulger lived unnoticed for years as a fugitive; Hank Rosenfeld knows his barber. Mike Roe takes us to Comic Con. "Hogan's Heroes" in sock puppets.
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